Hi,I have a set of Sony speakers that are a few years old. They have no power cable (nowhere to plug a cable in either) and the aux cable has no jacks. It is just two split wires. How can I connect them to my TV?Thanks,Aaron
They need an amplifier in order to work....You attach the speakers to the amp then the amp to the TV....You could also take the plastic shell off your TV then disconnect the internal speakers of the TV and solder the wire from the speakers you have onto the wire just connected from the TV speakers...You also would probably need to drill a small hole in the plastic cabinet of the TV in order to pass the wire through... also would need to figure out the polarity of the internal wires and also the speaker wire from the cabinet speakers or satellites...also the Impedance must also match..so it could be that you would need to add a resistor in order to match the impedance of the TV's amplifier....
They are passive speakers and require a compatible amplifier or receiver that is rated for the impedance of those speakers to safely work, otherwise you stand a good chance of burning up whatever you have them hooked up to.
Your unpowered (standard) speakers do not Plug in to a TV. They Plug in to an amplifier/receiver like all other standard speakers in this world do. Your speaker wires are not AUX cables, they are eh, speaker wires. speakers left over from all in one movie disc player/radios wont match up with normal recievers. You throw them away with the defunct disk player (HTiB). I do not believe for a second you do not know what a speaker is, or how normal speakers connect. This technology has been around for a century.
Very few TVs have connections for external speakers. The wire attached to each of your speakers is a speaker wire, not an aux cable. Your TV would need to have a line-level audio output (RCA jacks) or at least a headphone jack, which would be connected to a line-level input on a stereo or surround-sound receiver, and then that would drive the speakers. Speakers that have wires permanently attached (coming out through a hole), rather than having terminals to which wires are to be connected, are universally inferior. Still, considering the poor sound quality of many modern TVs, even the crummiest of box speakers might be an improvement.
You would need to buy an audio receiver to get your Sonys working with your TV. But between you and me, you could just use any old surround sound device to get your speakers going. Since your Sonys don't have power inputs. A receiver/surround sound would power them. Plug your speakers and TV to a receiver, then plug that receiver to a power outlet and your golden.
